Category Archives: Malawi
Malawi Blog on Learning Tumbuka
Monire monire! Muli uli? Tobias Kumwenda has started a blog to teach Tumbuka ( via Global Voices): The mission of this weblog is to teach those people who are not ChiTumbuka speakers located across the world, but have developed passion … Continue reading
Web to SMS
for future reference: I use Twitter’s direct messages to send out an occasional text message. I’m trying to set up a Twitter account for my family in Blantyre. The idea would be to DM them via Twitter. But somehow, the … Continue reading
CNN Report on Malawi Doctor Shortage
There’s a CNN TV report on the shortage of qualified medical personnel in Malawi. I zapped into it yesterday. It shows the dire situation at Mulanje District Hospital and in a rural dispensary. They interviewed a volunteer doctor from Uganda, … Continue reading
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Tagged brain drain, cnn tv report, doctor poaching, doctor shortage, Malawi
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Director of The Fairtrade Foundation recommends Satemwa
and Lujeri Tea Estates in an interview with guardian.co.uk: My favourite hotels are… Locally run guesthouses. I stay in many around the world, but recently I was in the tea estates of Malawi and stayed at the Satemwa Guesthouse in … Continue reading
Website: review everything malawi
I noticed a new website on Malawi: http://malawiweb.net/
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Tagged Blantyre, cape maclear, lake malawi, lilongwe, Malawi, reviews, website
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Zomba Plateau
browsing aimlessly thru my Malawi photos…
Malawi runners at Austin Marathon
While googling “porters race” I found this: Rogue Training Systems, a health and fitness company in Austin, Texas, is giving Malawian runners the chance to run Austin’s AT&T Marathon in February 2008.
Floods in Mocambique and Malawi
Heavy rains are causing the Zambezi and the Shire to flood. Here’s a BBC report: Heavy floods have also destroyed homes and crops, displacing thousands of people in southern and central Malawi. The Malawian government is warning people to relocate … Continue reading
Malawi blogger
Another Malawi blog I’d like to share with you: Dr Khumbo Kalua writes about his studies and work as a Senior Eye Specialist in Blantyre.
Light, misty drizzle
Google Book Search on chiperoni: The climate is tropical and monsoonal with a wet season (November to May) and a dry season (May to November). The dry season is mostly cool but hot and humid prior to the first rain. … Continue reading
IHT: The 53 places to go in 2008
The International Herald Tribune writes: 29. MALAWI Blame Madonna. Safarigoers tended to overlook Malawi, but that has changed since she began her effort to adopt a 1-year-old boy from this tiny African country that lies within the Great Rift Valley. … Continue reading
The van der Post trail
Found this interesting read at Times Online: A voyage round my father A daughter follows her father’s footsteps to Mount Mulanje. Page three of the article includes travel tips. Malawi is Africa as it once was, so there are no … Continue reading
Ant hill phone booth
Remember I wrote about the villagers in northern Malawi that climb an ant hill to get GSM reception? Looks like Soyapi saved the newspaper article and passed it on to Mike: Ant hill phone booth (Insert comment on power of … Continue reading
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120 registered nurses leave Malawi per year
Article on the continuing brain drain in the health sector of Malawi. Some excerpts: Official figures show around 120 registered nurses have migrated to Britain and the United States alone every year in the last decade with the health ministry … Continue reading
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Bush League
Interesting read: Cy on his Malawi experiences The contrast between rural and urban areas in Malawi is huge. I remember an article I read (probably The Nation or The Daily Times) during my last stay, on how people in a … Continue reading
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Chinese Business in Africa
Howard French, senior writer at the New York Times on: New Power in Africa: Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
Business operating costs in Malawi
The Malawi Investment Private Agency (MIPA) lists various costs associated with setting up a business. Unfortunately I don’t see a date so it’s hard to say if these figures are up-to-date or not.
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Most People Are Multilingual
Here’s my comment I submitted a couple of minutes ago at Climb to the Stars on Most People Are Multilingual (cos I’m not sure if my comment wasn’t gobbled): In southern Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, SA) most people are multi-lingual … Continue reading
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Radio show on the web: Daybreak Malawi
Capital FM is uploading its daily morning show to the web: The only early morning radio show in Malawi with a complete range of the latest news, views and interviews from across the country. You can now listen to daily … Continue reading
Exploring economies
I found this site via Development Gateway. It compares economies and offers rankings to quantify how easy it is to set up or shut down a business: Doing Business in Malawi
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Malawi GNU/Linux T-Shirt
cool: Anthu Ozindikira amagwirisa ntchito GNU/Linux Software
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Windmill builder
Lunch over IP on young Malawi windmill inventor: William Kamkwamba, a 15-year-old Malawian (…) built a windmill in his rural village based on a picture he saw in a book. He used old bicycle parts, wooden poles, plastic pipes, and … Continue reading
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in the summertime
I tried to capture today’s awesomely red fireball of a sunset in Basel. My cameraphone snapshot doesn’t quite do it justice. But heh, that’s one moment in time captured and stored and uploaded and tagged and online. Stumbled across this … Continue reading
Situation Report
United Nations Regional Inter-Agency Coordination and Support Office (RIACSO) on Malawi: Malawi will produce bumper crops of maize and other food crops this year. Some of this surplus will be exported to neighbouring Zimbabwe and other countries to address expected … Continue reading
